Vanessa Clemens

Doctoral Researcher

M. Sc. Vanessa Clemens

E-mail vanessa.clemens(at)uni-koeln(dot)de
Address Richard-Strauss-Str.2, 50931 Köln | Germany

Room 2.A03
Office hours by appointment

Research interests

intercultural psychology • cooperation • stereotypes and discrimination • judgment and decision-making • decisions under risk • behavioral economics • open science

Publications

Clemens, V., Orifici, M. C., Froehlich, L., Glöckner, A., & Dorrough, A. R. (2025). Beyond ingroup favoritism: Investigating cross-national social preferences across 25 nations. PNAS nexus, 4(11), pgaf343.

Academic distinctions

Best Student Presentation Runner-up, International Conference on Social Dilemmas, Leiden University, 2024
Travel Grant for the presentation at the International Conference on Social Dilemmas, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), 2024
Research Grant The role of institutions in closeness-based favoring behavior together with Asst. Prof. Dr. G. Spadaro and Prof. Dr. A. Glöckner, awarded by C-SEB, University of Cologne, 2023
Research Grant Underlying dimensions of intercultural differences together with Dr. F. Speckmann and M. Orifici, awarded by C-SEB, University of Cologne, 2023
Recipient of the Master Thesis Award, Department of Psychology, University of Cologne, 2023
Travel Grant for a Research stay at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL, hosted by Dr. Giuliana Spadaro, awarded by C-SEB, University of Cologne, 2022
Grant Climate change and human cooperation: An experimental cross-country analysis together with Prof. Dr. Nancy Buchan, Dr. Angela Dorrough, Dr. Gianluca Grimalda and Federica Raiti, awarded by University of South Carolina - Center for International Business, Education and Research (CIBER), 2022
C-SEB Student Grant Cumulative Prospect Theory and Psychological Distance: Self-Other Differences in Decision-Making Involving Risk, awarded by C-SEB, University of Cologne, 2022
National Scholarship Program, German Academic Scholarship Foundation, 2018-2022
Fulbright Travel Scholarship, 2017
Program Enhancing German Student’s Mobility (PROMOS) Scholarship, 2017